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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add a new helper for sleepable BTM acquirements
 which is used by tty_write_message()
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:35:49 +0100
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:39:58 +0800
Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com> wrote:

> This helper only used by tty_write_message(), it will sleep until BTM lock acquired.

This makes no sense at all. mutexes already sleep. Your code is also
wrong for real time processes.

So NAK.